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<H2>NAME</H2>

xtow - An X Compositing Window Manager for Microsoft Windows
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>

<B>xtow [ options ]</B>

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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>

<I>xtow</I> is a Compositing Window Manager for the X Window System running on Microsoft Windows.
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<I>xtow</I> is designed to connect to a headless X server which supports the Composite extension,
for example, <I>Xorg(1)</I> using the xf86-video-dummy driver, and will draw the contents of X windows
from that X server into native <I>Windows</I> windows.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>

<I>xtow</I> accepts the following command line switches, <I>all</I> of which are optional:
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<DT><B>-display [display]</B>

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Specifies the X server display to connect to.
<DT><B>-help</B>

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List these options and exit.
<DT><B>-noblur</B>

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Do not use the DWM glass effect to blur the image beneath transparent areas.
(Windows Vista and Window 7 only)
<DT><B>-nodwm</B>

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Do not use DWM, even if available (Windows Vista or later).  per-pixel transparency will not be
supported.
<DT><B>-noshm</B>

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Do not use MIT-SHM to transfer window images from the X server, even if available.
<DT><B>-verbose</B>

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Output verbose debugging information.  Multiple -verbose options increase verbosity.
<DT><B>-version</B>

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Display the version number and exit.
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<H2>WINDOW PROPERTIES</H2>

Partial conformance to ICCCM and EWMH standards.
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The widely used but non-standard _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY window property (which can be set by e.g.
transset(1)), controls the transparency of a window, with 0 being transparent and 0xffffffff being opaque.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>

<A HREF="../man1/XWin.1.html">XWin</A>(1).
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<H2>BUGS</H2>

Lots. This is a prototype for testing libXcwm at this stage.
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<H2>AUTHORS</H2>

xtow was written by Jon Turney.  It uses libXcwm to do most of the heavy lifting of tracking
X windows and talking xcb to the X server, and re-uses most of the code from <I><A HREF="../man1/XWin.1.html">XWin</A>(1)</I>'s
integrated window manager for managing the native windows.
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<DT><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAF">WINDOW PROPERTIES</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAG">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAH">BUGS</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAI">AUTHORS</A><DD>
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